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    orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Was just wondering how many people are left on here from the orginal Fastball migration (which was smaller than the Enquirer migration). I'm sure I'm forgetting a few people. (Please don't be offended if I forgot you, it's been a long time..)

    Still here..
    Me
    WestofYou
    ChipR
    Dan
    anyone else?

    Missing or banned
    Richard Hand
    Drew Nelson
    Brad/gm
    princeton
    anyone else?
    [Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob

    Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!


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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    15Fan

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Oh yea, I forgot about 15fan.. he has been kind of scarce, although I think I saw a post by him maybe a week ago..
    [Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob

    Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    M2 was around on Fastball and he stops by here from time to time.
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    Chip is right

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    JaxRed

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    I was on fastball. But I don't remember what my handle name was.

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Man, you guys make me feel like a newbie.
    Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RedsManRick View Post
    Man, you guys make me feel like a newbie.
    1996. IIRC

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Quote Originally Posted by RBA View Post
    I was on fastball. But I don't remember what my handle name was.
    I think it was maybe Gallagher?

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Quote Originally Posted by RBA View Post
    I was on fastball. But I don't remember what my handle name was.
    Long Beach?

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Anyone remember Usenet? I used to post on alt.sports.baseball.cinci-reds in the 1990s, before it got jammed up with spam and porn. Lurked on Fastball and a few others until I found RedsZone.
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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Quote Originally Posted by Yachtzee View Post
    Anyone remember Usenet? I used to post on alt.sports.baseball.cinci-reds in the 1990s, before it got jammed up with spam and porn.
    I wasn't even 10 in the 90s, but I know about usenet and love the ability to go back and look at old posts via Google Groups.

    https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....Q/D4e7s8zYYjAJ

    From: anon...@fan.net
    Subject: THE REDS ARE A JOKE
    Date: 1996/08/13
    newsgroups: alt.sports.baseball.cinci-reds


    Being a loyal (without Marge Schott), Cincinnati Fan, I have to say that
    their season is OVER!!

    They stink this year, and there's no getting around it. Reggie Sanders
    has, unfortunately, played a very big part (along with starting pitching),
    in their demise over the season.

    Kevin Mitchell hasn't done squat, and the only players worth watching are
    Eric Davis and Barry Larkin -- two awesome Red's greats.

    Hang it up Reds fans, it's football season anyways.

    ^sounds like a Redszone post today



    https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....Q/oE_w81A915wJ
    ^ Dusty Baker is an idiot!


    https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....s/Ci6ay6B8VI8J
    ^ Pretty clever
    “I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    http://web.archive.org/web/199911110.../baseball.html

    Was able to find a piece of the old Fastball site as well, though none of the links work so you can only see the message name. Still, I spy ChipR, WOY, M2, Krusty, 15fan, Dan.
    “I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”

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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Forgot about guernsey and Lark-O-Meter

    I am there as Newporttom

    http://web.archive.org/web/200005200.../baseball.html
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    Re: orginal people from the Fastball site?

    Quote Originally Posted by JaxRed View Post
    JaxRed
    Sorry, I couldn't remember where you came from.. I had a list of several people that I remembered from the early Redszone days and couldn't remember for sure.

    Quote Originally Posted by RBA View Post
    I was on fastball. But I don't remember what my handle name was.
    How could you forget your fastball name?

    I wasn't sure about guernsey and M2 being on fastball or not...

    Thanks everyone for helping me fill out the list
    [Phil ] Castellini celebrated the team's farm system and noted the team had promising prospects who would one day be great Reds -- and then joke then they'd be ex-Reds, saying "of course we're going to lose them". #SellTheTeamBob

    Nov. 13, 2007: One of the greatest days in Reds history: John Allen gets the boot!


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